Representative Image (AI-generated) CAPE TOWN: The South African armed forces said Thursday they had begun withdrawing their peacekeeping troops from rebel-controlled eastern Congo. The South African National Defense Force said the troops began moving out earlier this week and would travel through neighboring Rwanda to Tanzania and fly home from there. Peacekeeping troops from Malawi […]
Mr. Mudimbe was unapologetic. “To the question ‘what is Africa?’ or ‘how to define African cultures?’ one today cannot but refer to a body of knowledge in which Africa has been subsumed by Western disciplines such as anthropology, history, theology or whatever other scientific discourse,” he told Callaloo. “And this is the level on which […]
US president Donald Trump has signalled he will skip the G20 summit in South Africa due to “land confiscation” and “ white genocide.” In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “How could we be expected to go to South Africa for the very important G20 meeting when land confiscation and genocide is the primary […]
South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has been vocal about his desire to see his country’s wealthiest son, Elon Musk, invest some of his billions at home. But his overtures have been stymied by Mr. Musk’s criticism of the South African government as racist. Mr. Musk has argued that a law requiring foreign companies to sell […]
Reporting from the frontline, The New York Times’s Africa chief correspondent, Declan Walsh, details the fierce struggle for the bridges over the Nile and its tributaries that divide the Sudanese capital. Source link
